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  • Trump whines at Boebert for supporting Massie

    Source: Fox News

    “President Donald Trump on Saturday blasted Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., a longtime ally of the president, and threatened to back a primary challenger after she campaigned for one of his top Republican rivals. Trump lashed out on Truth Social against Boebert, whom he previously endorsed for reelection, just hours after she campaigned with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., one of Trump’s most vocal GOP critics in Congress. ‘Is anyone interested in running against Weak Minded Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s Fourth Congressional District?’ Trump wrote. The president criticized Boebert for supporting Massie, whose primary challenger, retired Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, has Trump’s endorsement.” (05/17/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-pull-boebert-endorsement-calls-congresswoman-weak-minded-over-massie-support

  • The Hague: Rwandan genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga dies

    Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]

    “Felicien Kabuga, a suspect in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has died in custody, a UN court said on Saturday. He ⁠was ⁠93 years old. The court, the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), said it had ordered an inquiry into the circumstances of his ​death. Kabuga was once one of the world’s most-wanted fugitives. He was accused of encouraging and bankrolling the massacres between April and June 1994, in which Hutu extremists killed ​more than 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 100 ​days. … Kabuga evaded arrest for more than two decades after the genocide, using a succession of false passports and aided by a network of former Rwandan allies. … Hist trial started in 20222. … Kabuga, however, ​was later ruled unfit to stand trial ​because of dementia.” (05/16/26)

    https://www.dw.com/en/rwandan-genocide-suspect-felicien-kabuga-dies-in-custody/a-77184740

  • KS: Judge Blocks Law Banning Gender-Transition Treatments for Youths

    Source: New York Times

    “Kansas cannot enforce its ban on nonsurgical gender-transition treatments for minors, a state judge ruled on Friday. The ruling gives supporters of transgender rights a significant, though temporary, victory after more than a year of setbacks in capitols and courtrooms across the country. … The judge, Carl Folsom III of the State District Court in Douglas County, said in granting a temporary injunction that the law had likely violated parents’ rights to make decisions for their children. Attorney General Kris W. Kobach, a Republican whose office defended the law, criticized the ruling as ‘a stark example of judicial activism,’ and vowed to appeal.” (05/16/26)

    https://archive.is/B404i

  • Hamas confirms top commander killed in Israeli air strike

    Source: BBC News [UK State Media]

    “A Hamas official has confirmed to the BBC that Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, commander of the group’s armed wing, was killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement that Haddad had been ‘responsible for the murder, kidnapping and injury of thousands of Israeli civilians and IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers’. Israel described him as ‘one of the architects of the October 7 massacre.’ The strike is the latest launched by Israel on Gaza despite a ceasefire with Hamas. Three eyewitnesses told the BBC that a residential building known as Al-Mu’taz was struck by three missiles launched simultaneously from two separate directions, before a fleeing car was hit. The air strike, targeting the apartment block in the centre of Gaza City, sparked a large fire.” (05/16/26)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx21jjwz1k1o

  • Philippines: Regime Asks Court to Deny Petition of Senator Sought by ICC

    Source: Bloomberg

    “The Philippine government asked the Supreme Court to deny a petition by Senator Ronald Dela Rosa to stop his arrest after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant on allegations of crimes against humanity. The government’s executive branch can enforce the ICC arrest warrant, the Office of the Solicitor General said in a comment filed to the court on Saturday and made public Sunday. … Dela Rosa was chief of police from 2016 to 2018, when ex-president Rodrigo Duterte waged a crackdown on illegal drugs that killed thousands. Dela Rosa went on to win a Senate seat in 2019 and was reelected last year. He maintains the ICC has no jurisdiction over the Philippines.” (05/17/26)

    https://archive.is/42oJc

  • Venezuela: Regime says it has deported close ally of Maduro to face criminal proceedings in US

    Source: SFGate

    “Venezuela’s government said Saturday it deported a close ally of Nicolás Maduro facing several criminal investigations in the U.S. less than three years after the businessman was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap. The decision marks a stark reversal for Alex Saab, who Maduro fought tooth and nail to bring home after his previous international arrest in 2020. Now, the Colombian-born insider, long described by U.S. officials as Maduro’s ‘bag man,’ may be asked to testify against his former protector, who is awaiting trial on drug charges in Manhattan after being captured in a shock raid by the U.S. military in January.” (05/16/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/venezuela-says-it-deported-close-ally-of-maduro-22262638.php

  • SCOTUS rejects bid to revive Democrats’ Virginia redistricting plan

    Source: Politico

    “Virginia Democrats’ last-ditch bid to revive their plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to gain additional Democratic seats fizzled out Friday at the Supreme Court as the justices refused to restore the results of the referendum voters approved last month. Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones asked the nation’s highest court to take emergency action to block a Virginia Supreme Court ruling earlier this month that nullified the referendum after concluding that it violated the state’s constitution. The emergency appeal found no traction at the Supreme Court. A one-sentence order released shortly after Jones filed his final brief on the appeal said Chief Justice John Roberts referred the stay request to the full bench, which denied relief.” (05/15/26)

    https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/15/supreme-court-democrats-virginia-redistricting-00925046

  • WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DR Congo a global health emergency

    Source: BBC News [UK State Media]

    “The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province a public health emergency of international concern. The agency added that the outbreak, with around 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths reported, does not meet the criteria of pandemic emergency. WHO director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned there are currently ‘significant uncertainties to the true number of infected persons and geographic spread’ of the outbreak. The current strain of Ebola is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, the health agency said, for which there are no approved drugs or vaccines. The WHO said there are now eight laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus, with other suspected cases and deaths across three health zones including Bunia the capital of Ituri province, and the gold-mining towns of Mongwalu and Rwampara.” (05/16/26)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l2p0wwzzdo

  • UK: Tens of thousands march in London in far-right and pro-Palestine protests

    Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]

    “Tens of thousands of people are marching through central London in two separate protests – one pro-Palestine demonstration a day after Nakba Day, and the other, a far-right rally staged by Tommy Robinson. Police in the British capital deployed 4,000 officers, including reinforcements from ⁠outside the city, on Saturday and pledged ‘the most assertive possible use of our powers’ in what they called their biggest public order operation in years. … In a Saturday evening update, police said officers had made 43 arrests at the twin protests, which both ended by 18:30 GMT.” (05/16/26)

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/16/tens-of-thousands-march-in-london-in-far-right-and-pro-palestine-protests

  • AL: In birthplace of Civil Rights Movement, groups rally to defend discrimination

    Source: SFGate

    “Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the city considered the crucible of the modern Civil Rights Movement to push back against conservative states’ efforts to dismantle congressional districts that helped secure Black political representation. The gathering in Montgomery, Alabama, was put together in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the resulting rush by southern states to redraw lines. Speakers said they returned to the city, famous for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march, because the fight that began there is continuing for later generations. The Rev. Bernice King, speaking near the spot where her father, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., addressed voting rights marchers in 1965, said the dedication and sacrifice of that generation changed the trajectory of the country.” (05/16/26)

    https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/in-the-birthplace-of-civil-rights-movement-22262011.php


  • Computer “Age Verification” is About Political Control, Not Child Safety

    Source: Garrison Center
    by Thomas L Knapp

    “Because California is the ‘authoritarian law idea? Hold my beer!’ state, governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation last October which requires operating system providers to collect age information on each new user account, and provide an API that lets Internet platforms and app developers access that information so as to exclude users Gavin Newsom doesn’t think should be using those platforms and apps [“for the chillllllllllldren”]. It’s almost, but not quite, funny. It’s almost funny because it won’t take the chillllllllllldren in question more than a few minutes to figure out ways around this kind of thing. ‘Age verification’ laws are, and always have been, political fantasy, as you know yourself if you were ever a 19-year-old college student who used a fake ID to get into a nightclub. It’s not quite funny because it isn’t, and never was, about ‘the chillllllllllldren.'” (05/17/26)

    https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20620

  • Hobbes’s Self-Defeating Theory

    Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
    by Joshua Mawhorter

    “Like it or not, for several centuries now, Hobbes’s nation-state concept has been the default paradigm and context for modern people whenever they think about government. Without having ever read Hobbes, people will unknowingly repeat his assumptions, presuppositions, concerns, and arguments for the state. Yet — with some simple logic and using Hobbes’s own presuppositions — we can internally critique Hobbes’s argument and see that his proposed solution of the state solves none of the problems he presents.” (05/15/26)

    https://mises.org/mises-wire/hobbess-self-defeating-theory

  • The Endless Search for Emergency Tariff Authority

    Source: The Daily Economy
    by David Hebert

    “The legal foundation for taxing every import into the US has now rested, at various points in the past year, on a 1977 emergency powers law, a 1974 statute designed for a monetary system that no longer exists, and — if the administration’s next move is what trade lawyers expect — a Depression-era provision that has never once been used to impose actual tariffs in almost a century. At some point, running out of legal justifications is a signal worth heeding.” (05/15/26)

    https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-endless-search-for-emergency-tariff-authority/

  • Plunder, War Profiteering, and Spirit Airlines

    Source: Libertarian Institute
    by Charles Goyette

    “Someone, somewhere is making a lot of money. It’s the most brazen plunder since Hillary Clinton was trading cattle futures in Little Rock. Or since Nancy Pelosi was placing stock trades. Come to think of it, there seems to be a whole lot of plunder going on in the world of politics. It’s not just oil in the ‘Age of Trump.’ As President Ronald Reagan’s budget director and a Wall Street veteran, David Stockman is a seasoned observer of political plunder. When Donald Trump suddenly offered up the suggestion that ‘we’ (the taxpayers) buy struggling Spirit Airlines, Stockman wrote a piece called, ‘Was It You, Barron? Someone Made 3.5X On The Donald’s Spirit Airlines Socialism.’ This chart shows Spirit Holdings share price spiking when Trump started his takeover talk on April 21 (and then quickly collapsing).” (05/15/26)

    https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/plunder-war-profiteering-and-spirit-airlines

  • Is France really poorer than Mississippi?

    Source: Washington Post
    by Megan McArdle

    “I’m not, alas, in Paris right now. But I can certainly imagine myself in a Parisian cafe, enjoying some steak frites and a glass of wine while taking in the glorious streetscape. What’s harder to imagine is soaking in all that ambiance and thinking, ‘Yeah, this place is definitely poorer than Mississippi.’ No, seriously, that’s what gross domestic product statistics suggest. In 2024, France had a per capita GDP of $46,103. Mississippi’s was $55,876. As recently as 10 years ago, French GDP was ahead ($37,024 versus $36,184), but since then U.S. GDP and productivity have grown significantly faster than Western Europe’s. This fact has caused much social media friction between smug Americans and defensive Europeans (allied with American progressives) who argue that you can’t measure what makes their way of life better.” (05/17/26)

    https://archive.is/lociD

  • Blue state bill targets homeschoolers in latest government power grab

    Source: Fox News
    by Corey DeAngelis

    “After decades of parental rights victories, Connecticut may become the first state to go backwards on homeschool freedom in the past 50 years. The Connecticut Senate advanced a bill attacking homeschooling families by a vote of 22 to 14, mostly along party lines. Three Democrats joined all Republicans in opposition. The measure cleared the House 96-53 last week, with four Democrats crossing the aisle to stand with Republicans. Those margins fall short of the two-thirds supermajority required in both chambers to override a gubernatorial veto. Connecticut families now have only one remaining safeguard. Leadership should respect the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children and block this Orwellian legislation.” (05/15/26)

    https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/blue-state-bill-targets-homeschoolers-latest-government-power-grab

  • George Washington, Father of the Country, Killed by Doctors

    Source: Brownstone Institute
    by Jeffrey A Tucker

    “he grim circumstances behind the death of George Washington (1732-1799), America’s first president and popularly known as the Father of the Country, are not wholly unknown. The details have been reported by historians for more than two centuries. What’s strange about this dry biographical knowledge is that it is not reported with shock and alarm and hence never conveyed to popular culture with lessons for our lives. This is because Washington’s physicians were following standard protocols when they bled him to death.” (05/15/26)

    https://brownstone.org/articles/george-washington-father-of-the-country-killed-by-doctors/

  • The Rotten Roots of Gerrymandering

    Source: Free Association
    by Sheldon Richman

    “Congressional redistricting — or pejoratively, gerrymandering — has dominated the headlines lately. This is a big deal in the primary-election season with an unpopular president and midterms right around the corner. Few issues provoke such animosity. Each side accuses the other of trying to stack the deck and rig the elections. … What most people refuse to understand is that if the public sees the government as a 24/7/365 bazaar offering virtually any benefit demanded of it to those with clout, then those who want what they cannot acquire through persuasion and voluntary exchange will work overtime to gain advantage from political power.” (05/15/26)

    https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-the-rotten-roots-of-gerrymandering

  • Mercy for good apples when they expose bad apples

    Source: Christian Science Monitor
    by staff

    “For American executives who spot fraud and financial misconduct among workers and then quickly report it, the U.S. Justice Department has a refreshing message: Your alertness to right-doing can bring a reward – in mercy. Federal prosecutors were recently handed expanded powers to be lenient toward companies that voluntarily report wrongdoing by individual employees in a ‘timely’ manner, make amends to those wronged, and shape up internal rules – hotlines, audits, etc. – to expose white-collar crime. The accused individuals are then prosecuted, not the company, preventing a hefty fine or forfeiture. Shareholders and employees also benefit from the avoidance of some kinds of negative fallout, such as bankruptcy. Yet the biggest result so far, according to Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York – which includes Wall Street – has been faster and greater detection of fraud.” (05/15/26)

    https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0515/Mercy-for-good-apples-when-they-expose-bad-apples

  • Trump leaves China with little of substance after summit

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Michael D Swaine

    “The president’s meeting with Xi Jinping resulted in more fanfare than concrete policy change.” (05/15/26)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-xi-summit-taiwan/

  • The US Immigration-Control Death Machine

    Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
    by Jacob G Hornberger

    “Death has always been a central feature of America’s immigration-control system. Death has become normalized. Sure, there will be the standard laments about this tragic occurrence, there will be the standard condemnations of the immigrants themselves for violating U.S. immigration laws, and there will be the standard diatribes against human traffickers who prey on people who are simply trying to survive or improve their lives through labor. But the fact remains: Death has long been an inherent part of America’s immigration-control system. In the absence of that system, all those victims would still be alive.” (05/15/26)

    https://www.fff.org/2026/05/15/the-u-s-immigration-control-death-machine/

  • Why America still needs a complete accounting of the “Russiagate” conspiracy

    Source: New York Post
    by staff

    “It’s great that the FBI is probing former CIA Director John Brennan’s role in the Russiagate conspiracy, but the country needs a lot more than criminal investigations and prosecutions to fully air the truth about the 2016 plot to smear Donald Trump as a pawn of Vladimir Putin. The probe turns on Brennan’s apparent perjury in congressional testimony about one part of his role, namely the fact that in 2016 he ensured that the ‘Steele dossier’ would be part of an Intelligence Community Assessment that claimed to find real Trump-Russia collusion. … The dossier, you’ll recall, was a farrago of fiction (including the ‘pee tape’ lie) about Trump’s alleged connections to Russia; the Clinton campaign paid British ex-spook Christopher Steele to fabricate it as a weapon against Trump during the 2016 campaign.” [editor’s note: The Clinton campaign was Steele’s second client for the “dossier” material. The first client was a Republican news site – TLK] (05/16/26)

    https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/opinion/why-america-still-needs-a-complete-accounting-of-the-russiagate-conspiracy/

  • Winning? Republicans support a war that’s pummeling ‘Main Street’

    Source: Responsible Statecraft
    by Jack Hunter

    “If you ask President Donald Trump, he is winning the Iran war, implementing a ‘comprehensive plan to end the Gaza conflict,’ and making serious progress on ending the war in Ukraine. So much winning — on Main Street, in the Persian Gulf, and everywhere else. But pollsters will tell you that Americans are largely against the war in Iran and feel the president hasn’t really explained why the U.S. is there. Moreover, 60% now have an unfavorable view of our ‘iron clad’ relations with Israel, and a majority have low trust in Trump’s decision-making regarding Ukraine and Russia. These are negatives that could obviously affect his party in the approaching midterm elections.” (05/15/26)

    https://responsiblestatecraft.org/republicans-iran-trump/

  • Stop Trump’s High Seas Killing Spree

    Source: OtherWords
    by Farrah Hassen

    “The US military has been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean and Pacific over the past nine months with impunity. On May 8, the US military struck another boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two people and leaving one survivor. US Southern Command claimed ‘the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes’ and ‘was engaged in narco-trafficking operations.’ According to The Intercept, there have now been 58 such boat strikes since September that have killed at least 193 people. As with the May 8 attack, the names and nationalities of most of these victims remain unknown. The Trump administration has accused civilian boats of transporting narcotics to the US and says its killing ‘narco-terrorists.’ But the Pentagon has provided no evidence for these claims or any indication that the people killed posed an imminent threat” (05/16/26)

    https://otherwords.org/the-u-s-must-end-its-illegal-boat-strikes/

  • Liberals support even illegal protest while conservatives oppose even legal protest

    Source: Expression
    by Sean Stevens

    “First, some good news. Almost no American surveyed, regardless of their ideological views, said that it is ever unacceptable to peacefully protest outside [a] speech. That said, significantly more liberals were accepting of peaceful protest than their moderate and conservative counterparts — but not their very conservative counterparts. If nothing else, these findings show that Lizardman’s Constant, which says about 4% of any survey will give bizarre or insincere results, is alive and well. Yet, when it comes to other protected forms of protest, very liberal and liberal Americans were significantly more supportive of their use than moderate, conservative, or very conservative Americans.” (05/15/26)

    https://expression.fire.org/p/liberals-support-even-illegal-protest

  • The Green Deal’s War on Polish Furniture

    Source: Foundation for Economic Education
    by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes

    “Poland is one of the most dynamic and promising economies in the European Union. With GDP growth of 3.6% in 2025 and forecasts pointing to 3.7% in 2026, the country continues to establish itself as one of the continent’s engines of growth. However, there is a European regulation threatening one of the sectors that contributes most to this success: the timber and furniture industry.” (05/15/26)

    https://fee.org/articles/the-green-deals-war-on-polish-furniture/

  • Liberalism and Christianity in the Age of Social Media

    Source: Liberalism.org
    by Mark Tooley

    “The liberal Christianity of the American founding came from authentic, in-person faith communities. Can it survive in a time of influencers and vertical video?” (05/16/26)

    https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism-and-christianity-in-the-age-of-social-media

  • Trump Accounts and the No Economist Left Behind Test

    Source: CounterPunch
    by Dean Baker

    “Back when George W. Bush was doing his big drive to privatize Social Security, I got upset because he was using bogus numbers that grossly exaggerated what his private accounts would yield. The basic story was that his team assumed that stocks would provide the same returns they had in prior decades, even though the price-to-earnings ratios in the stock market were far higher than in the past, and projected GDP and profit growth were much lower. Given the assumptions being used on profit growth, their assumptions on returns were virtually impossible. To illustrate this point, I developed the ‘No Economist Left Behind Test.’ … If the Bush Team could get away with promising an impossible bonanza from their accounts, privatization would look much better than it actually is. It was important to set the record straight.” (05/15/26)

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/15/trump-accounts-and-the-no-economist-left-behind-test/

  • The Electoral College and American Freedom

    Source: Town Hall
    by Jerry Newcombe

    “As we celebrate America at 250, there is a part of our founding in the Constitution (Article II, Section 1, Clause 2), about which some on the left gnash their teeth — the Electoral College. For example, a few days ago, a former Biden administration official asked publicly, ‘What if we selected our President by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the Electoral College?’ … Meanwhile, many blue states, including just recently Virginia, have signed on to a compact to try and effectively nullify the Electoral College.” [editor’s note: To make the EC relevant to today, they only need to follow the lead of Maine and Nebraska, and DECENTRALIZE it – SAT] (05/16/26)

    https://townhall.com/columnists/jerrynewcombe/2026/05/16/the-electoral-college-and-american-freedom-n2676044

  • The Trump-Xi summit was a battle of two waning superpowers

    Source: spiked
    by James Woudhuysen

    “America is in long-term decline, but it has proved more resilient than critics allow. But China too now encounters unmistakable problems. The US is growing, but saddled with burgeoning debt – and China also has trouble brewing in that domain. Of course, Trump faces domestic dissent – but so, in a very different form, does the CCP. China has long had too much housing built, is heavily indebted and is hurtling towards a demographic cliff.” (05/15/26)

    https://archive.is/zZOGb

  • Taxpayers Still on the Hook for a Gas Tax Holiday

    Source: Exiled Policy
    by Jason Pye & Eric Harrison

    “Of course, Congress needs to find a way to ease the pain Americans feel at the pump. This is why it was so critical for lawmakers to exercise their constitutional and statutory powers to stop the military action against Iran, which led to higher gas prices. Unfortunately, Americans are paying the price for that military action in more ways than just higher gas prices.” (05/15/26)

    https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/taxpayers-still-on-the-hook-for-a

  • Data centers: true menace or fearmongering?

    Source: The Price of Liberty
    by Nathan Barton

    “The opportunity for government interference grows because of fear. Which is no doubt one reason that certain groups of people encourage and do the fearmongering. Wealth and power is a constant theme.” (05/15/26)

    https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/05/15/data-centers-true-menace-or-fearmongering/

  • Universities’ Best Defense Against Censorship in the Public Square Is Free Inquiry

    Source: The UnPopulist
    by Jonathan Marks

    “In their otherwise valuable new book, two prominent professors acknowledge the need for diverse viewpoints on campuses but don’t offer a cure for intellectual uniformity.” (05/15/26)

    https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/universities-best-defense-against

  • How to Stop Mega Gerrymandering From Scrambling Democracy

    Source: Common Dreams
    by Ralph Nader

    “‘Gerrymandering’ is the historic term for politicians picking their voters by manipulating congressional and state electoral districts. Redistricting usually happens every 10 years. It is fair to say that most voters don’t want politicians rigging the system to help one party win elections. Both the Republican and Democratic parties have played this partisan gerrymandering game for years. Recently, the Republicans have become more ruthlessly partisan and have outpaced the Democrats. That is why, for example, in Pennsylvania, Democrats substantially outvote the Republicans but have fewer seats in the House of Representatives. In the past year, the gerrymandering race has run amok. It was ignited by Tyrant Trump, who told his buddy Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to break with the decennial tradition and get the GOP legislature this year to redistrict Texas to knock out four or five Democrats who are now in Congress.” (05/16/26)

    https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/stop-mega-gerrymandering

  • The US Should Cut Its Losses in the Iran War

    Source: Independent Institute
    by Ivan Eland

    “Presidential power is now running rogue. Congress needs to push back at its roots and use the War Powers Resolution of the 1970s to end both the Iran War and the continuing War on Terror. The president’s own party is paralyzed by congressional members’ fear that an adverse tweet from Trump will end their political careers, even though there should be strength in numbers to do the right thing. However, many should be even more frightened that the American people will fire them in November if they don’t act to end this pointless war of choice now.” (05/15/26)

    https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/15/cut-losses-iran-war/